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"Today our lesson was on prepositions, contractions, and conjunctions. The student expressed a desire to focus on her writing skills, so I believe these aspects of the English language to be particularly pertinent. She has trouble with confusing prepositions and prepositional phrases."

"Today we worked on textual analysis and MC with two passages, "How Cool is Pluto" and "Patriotic Pizza." The first passage was teacher-led and students worked on the second passage individually. One of the students struggled with finding evidence in the text. Another student completed the assignment on time and received a 100% score."

"Again, we reviewed what we have learned so far. Also, I asked the student some comprehension questions about the book that we are reading.

We also read an informational text from the New York Times to broaden her exposure to different types of words."

"We covered tenses of regular verbs and health-related vocabulary. The student seems increasingly confident. She will practice writing sentences and answering health-related questions for next week."

"Corrected the homework I had assigned the student. Introduced more irregular past tense verbs. Explained how to conjugate in the future tense. Practiced asking questions using do, does, did and will. I provided her with vocabulary cards and a vocabulary sheet to practice all the new vocabulary words."

"The student and I continued the same work we've been doing. I've been asked to provide him with 2 hours of homework. This time he read chapter 2 and 3 of his book and inferred/looked up words he didn't know. We worked with a list of about 20 common idioms and he read a magazine to informally practice inference and looking words up."

"The student told me that he would like help preparing for his upcoming visa exam. He is fairly proficient in everyday, spoken English, but sometimes struggles with more formal, "interview" English. I created a mock interview for him, where I asked him the type of questions he might be asked on a visa interview. We then discussed his responses. He has a tendency to go off on tangents and be a little too verbose; I coached him on how to answer the question more concisely and stick to the point. For the most part, his grammar was pretty good, however, I did correct him on a few verb agreements, and idiomatic expressions. I asked him to talk with his colleagues who have had visa interviews in the past, to get a better sense of what his interview will entail. I also recommended that he read more newspapers and listen to newscasts, in order to have a better 'ear' for formal English."

"The student and I went over her emails from the last two weeks. Most of them were excellent, with only a few minor errors. Sentence composition and syntax is still a bit of a problem. She had the brilliant idea to purchase some workbooks that specifically help ESL students with forming sentences. She needs a better understanding of sentence structure, which will allow her to feel more comfortable composing emails. We selected four workbooks online that will arrive by our next session. These workbooks will form the foundation of our future tutoring sessions."

"Intro: We introduced ourselves, and I asked him to describe how he came to live in the US and what he does here.
*Looking at a map, we talked about places to go in proximity to where he works and lives.
*Phrasal verbs with "up": we covered several common phrasal verbs with a worksheet I created; we will practice more of these next time.
*We read a BBC article on Whole Foods and how they manage their employees with a consensual work culture and discussed how this relates to his company.
*We looked at photos of home interiors to build vocabulary; he knew very few words in this area, so this was a particularly helpful topic."

"We first reviewed the grammar we went over last time, and I taught him a few new things including noun pluralization and possession. I also gave him some basic verbs to learn, which we went over. Finally, I had him practice by translating a few sentences from Chinese into English."

"We discussed ways to improve comfort and fluency in English in regular everyday contexts. We also did some role playing that addressed various ways to begin, continue and end a conversation in different professional contexts. For our next session, I will bring more materials to help us learn more vocabulary and idiomatic expressions. I encouraged the student to use as many vocabulary words and idiomatic expressions as she can on a daily basis."